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The BXD5 strain used as the paternal strain in this intercross is a recombinant inbred strain that was derived by crossing C57BL/6J and DBA/2J lines of mice [ 58].
To map QTLs that modulate variation in CNS size and cell populations we used an F2 intercross between a strain with low brain weight (A/J) and a strain with high brain weight (BXD5).
The ABDF2 intercross has been used previously to map QTLs that modulate total brain weight [ 56] and cerebellar volume [ 57].
The expectation is that a map based on loci that are spaced at intervals of 1 cM ( c = 0.01 in an intercross) will be expanded approximately 3.66-fold.
Because of interference, the occurrence of two recombinations within 10 cM is highly improbable in an F2 intercross, and consequently, double recombinants are often used as a measure of genotyping error or incorrect marker order.